Armin
The boy's name Armin has been in the national records since 1893, with 3,317 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,035th. About 2,300 Armins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Armin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,317
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,875th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,035th
- First recorded
- 1893
How old the living Armins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,317 babies given the name since 1893, about 2,300 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 190 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German, Latin
From German Armin, from Latin Arminius.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Armins
- Armin van Buuren (born 1976)Dutch DJ and record producer
- Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930)German actor
- Armin Laschet (born 1961)German politician (CDU)
- Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913)Hungarian orientalist, academic
- Armin Meiwes (born 1961)German cannibal
- Armin Gigović (born 2002)Bosnian-Swedish association football player
- Armin Zöggeler (born 1974)Italian luger
- Armin Hary (born 1937)German sprinter
People named Armin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Armin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Armin is most concentrated in Wisconsin (8.6×), California (3.1×), Minnesota (2.9×), Texas (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Armin peaked:
Armin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Armin | 412 | 219th |
| Austria boys | Armin | 391 | 57th |
| Italy boys | Armin | 365 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Armin | 287 | 1,111th |
| France boys | Armin | 285 | 1,776th |
| Norway boys | Armin | 278 | 319th |
| Poland boys | Armin | 275 birth registrations | 245th |
| Belgium boys | Armin | 131 | 638th |
| Ireland boys | Armin | 13 | 601st |
| France girls | Armin | 5 | 4,539th |
| England and Wales girls | Armin | 4 | 4,709th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Armin | 3 | 375th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Armin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Armin | 361 | 0.029% | 168th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Armin | 45 | 0.010% | 277th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Armin | 5 | 0.008% | 123rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Armin | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Armin is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.04% of children were given it – 46 of them.
Armin: rank by region
In 2025, Armin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Armin | 806 | 6 |
In 2025, Armin was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Armin | 234 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Armin | 135 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Armin | 212 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Armin | 175 | 5 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Armin appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (293rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Armin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 73 | 259th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Armin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Armin | 94 | 126 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Armin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.